Two interesting incidents – explicit content censorship
Two interesting censorship issues have occurred over the last two months. As an arts project and something that is trying to represent global society, The One Million Masterpiece should be a censorship free zone. That's the way I always envisaged it - if someone wants to draw about a subject then it's a valid viewpoint of this world - good or bad.However, that just won't wash. We're planning to take this project in to schools from January and there can be zero risk that kids will see anything remotely controversial.
There are already a few systems on the site that protect against explicit content, but recently we've had two breaches. First up was a guy who drew a female nude in an uncompromising position – think of an anatomical sketch that wouldn't be out of place on the men's toilet wall. This is an easy one. The image is marked as adult, and therefore obscured from view on the public website. The image is safe and will be printed in the final artwork, however it cannot be seen by anyone other than the artist.
The second one has been more controversial and involves possible copyright infringement and slander!
Philip Stone recently amended his image from a rather innocuous easyBully (in reference of
Again, our moderators picked this up pretty quickly (in under 15 minutes) and the picture was obscured, but we did receive some complaints. Philip should have marked his image as adult in nature, but he failed to, which led to its publication on the main site.
This is going to be a recurrent issue. When you're dealing with large numbers of people, artistic integrity, freedom of expression and charitable fundraising there will be some flash points. We're already beefing up the security controls in preparation for our Schools Programme but will continue to work on a solution that will keep everyone happy
posted by Paul Fisher @ 12:33 pm
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